Current:Home > ContactPat Sajak Celebrates Wheel of Fortune Perfect Game By Putting Winner in an Armlock -Blueprint Wealth Network
Pat Sajak Celebrates Wheel of Fortune Perfect Game By Putting Winner in an Armlock
View
Date:2025-04-14 04:21:58
You can't spell 'Wrestling' without R, S, T, L, N, E.
Nobody knows that better than Pat Sajak, because he just pulled off an impressive move against the winner of Wheel of Fortune's March 21 episode.
After wrestler and teacher Fred Fletcher-Jackson squashed his competition for a $75,800 grand prize—including winning the bonus round—the longtime Wheel host celebrated the contestant's perfect game by putting him in a hammerlock.
"He got me, genuinely," Fred said in his official post-game interview with Pat's daughter Maggie Sajak. "I was trying to counter his hammerlock that he had me in. I was trying to get behind him and I wasn't going anywhere."
And it turns out, winning America's Game has been on Fred's to-do list for his entire life.
"My mom says that my first words ever were, 'Buy a vowel.' True story," he revealed. "Wheel was at the top of my list of dream-come-true scenarios in my life and it's happening."
Fred added, "Dreams can come true, because mine just did."
The viral moment comes several months after Pat, who has starred on the game show alongside Vanna White since the early 1980s, suggested that he will have to tap out from his hosting duties eventually.
"Years go by fast," the 76-year-old told Entertainment Tonight in September. "We're getting near the end. It's been a long [time]. We're not gonna do this for another 40 years. The end is near."
However, he also noted, "It's an honor to have been in people's living rooms for that long. People were out there welcoming us. We're happy and proud."
You can play along with Wheel of Fortune weeknights in syndication.
Get the drama behind the scenes. Sign up for TV Scoop!veryGood! (191)
Related
- Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
- Calum Scott thanks Phillies fans after 'Dancing On My Own' hits 1 billion streams
- Trump ally Sidney Powell pleads guilty to conspiracy charges in Georgia 2020 election case
- All's fair in love and pickleball? 'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner courts skills
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- Northern Europe braces for gale-force winds, floods
- Man accused of bringing guns to Wisconsin Capitol now free on signature bond, can’t possess weapons
- Feds OK natural gas pipeline expansion in Pacific Northwest over environmentalist protests
- US wholesale inflation accelerated in November in sign that some price pressures remain elevated
- Pioneering L.A. program seeks to find and help homeless people with mental illness
Ranking
- Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
- Week 8 college football expert picks: Top 25 game predictions led by Ohio State-Penn State
- Pulse nightclub to be purchased by city of Orlando with plans of mass shooting memorial
- The Guardian fires longtime cartoonist after allegations of antisemitic imagery
- The Daily Money: Spending more on holiday travel?
- Father arrested for setting New Orleans house fire that killed his 3 children in domestic dispute, police say
- 2 San Antonio police officers shot and wounded during domestic disturbance call; suspect surrenders
- Shooter attack in Belgium drives an EU push to toughen border and deportation laws
Recommendation
Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
The Best Barbie Halloween Costume Ideas: Everything You Need to Look Plastic and Fantastic
Peru imposes harsh penalties for stealing cellphones, including life in prison
Maryland police officer suspended after arrest on Capitol riot charges
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
DIARY: Under siege by Hamas militants, a hometown and the lives within it are scarred forever
All's fair in love and pickleball? 'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner courts skills
Israel-Hamas war fuels anger and protests across the Middle East amid fears of a wider conflict